Active body surface warming systems for preventing complications caused by inadvertent perioperative hypothermia in adults

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Madrid, Eva ^a,b   Urrútia, Gerard ^c   Roqué i Figuls, Marta ^c   Pardo Hernandez, Hector ^c   Campos, Juan Manuel ^d   Paniagua, Pilar ^d   Maestre, Luz ^d   Alonso Coello, Pablo ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b Iberoamerican Cochrane Center   (Spain)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE SANT PAU IIB SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACTIVE BODY SURFACE WARMING SYSTEM; ANXIETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BURN; CARBON FIBER RESISTIVE HEATING BLANKET; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DECUBITUS; DEVICE COMPARISON; ELECTRIC HEATING SYSTEM; FORCED AIR WARMING SYSTEM; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INADVERTENT PERIOPERATIVE HYPOTHERMIA; INFUSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR SURGERY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMFORT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIANT HEATING SYSTEM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESISTIVE HEATING SYSTEM; REVIEW; SHIVERING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERMAL REGULATING SYSTEM; WARM WATER CIRCULATION SYSTEM; WARMING; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COLD; DEVICES; HEATING; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THERMOREGULATION;

AIR; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COLD TEMPERATURE; HEATING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84964330160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009016.pub2     Document Type: Review

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